For decades Lindsey Graham traveled the globe selling a vision of the United States as a nation willing to use its military might to protect democracies around the world, even as his party was taken over by a president openly skeptical of that worldview.<\/p>\n
Graham \u2014 who died unexpectedly at 71 on Saturday night \u2014 was a rare bridge between President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy and the traditional Washington consensus prioritizing alliances with Europe and Israel, one falling out of favor with many in both political parties.<\/p>\n
With that idea of the US, Graham remained a staunch defender of Ukraine to the end, even as Trump\u2019s commitment wavered.<\/p>\n
Graham represented South Carolina in the House and Senate for more than three decades. He died after what a preliminary report from the Washington, D.C., medical examiner\u2019s office said was a tear in his aorta. The senator\u2019s death triggered praise from leaders and diplomats around the world and condemnation from Iran and other countries where he\u2019d agitated for military action.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn an increasingly isolationist America, Sen. Graham was one of the last titans of the Senate who favored a muscular and engaged US foreign policy,\u201d said Paul Foldi, a former diplomat and top Republican staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. \u201cHe is irreplaceable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, whom Graham opposed, then embraced, won the White House partly by harnessing voters\u2019 disgust with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2014 both of which were championed by Graham\u2019s wing of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For decades Lindsey Graham traveled the globe selling a vision of the United States as a nation willing to use its military might to protect democracies around the world, even as his party was taken over by a president openly skeptical of that worldview. Graham \u2014 who died unexpectedly at 71 on Saturday night \u2014 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100215,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200\/revisions\/100215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}